So I lost my voice this past weekend because I was driving around with my friends. We were listening

to music. The windows were rolled down. We were having an incredible time. And it came time for my

friends to put on musical theater music. All of my friends love musical theater. They love Wicked. They love West Side Story. They love

Little Shop of Horrors. They love hairspray. They love Hamilton. My friends love musical theater.

And so every time we're driving around and listening to music and singing,

windows roll down, musical theater or music will come on at some point. Now, this is the time in

the car ride where I sort of quiet down and keep to myself because I didn't grow up doing theater.

I didn't grow up watching theater. I didn't grow up watching theater. I know nothing

about musical theater. And I definitely don't know the lyrics. So it's not really my thing.

However, on this particular weekend, last weekend, my friends were extra generous and decided

to hold up the lyrics for me so that I could learn some of the songs with them so that I could participate.

Very generous, very nice.

And we put on Wicked, specifically the Wicked movie soundtrack.

And even more specifically, the song Defying Gravity, which went very viral

on the internet, because Cynthia Arrivo, Elphaba, in the musical movie Wicked, does this unbelievable

vocal riff thing in that song. And it went viral. So you probably heard it. Anyway,

that's like the only thing I know about musical theater is that Cynthia Arrivo in the Wicked

movie did this like insane riff in the song Defying Gravity. That's like the only thing I know

about musical theater. Anywho, they put that on and I got excited because I knew that in that song, I'd be able to participate

wholeheartedly at a certain point.

When that riff came around, I knew that that was my moment to shine with my musical theater

loving friends.

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